The rose's age is but a day
- DMI number:
- 16064
- First Line:
- The rose's age is but a day
- Last Line:
- It blows at morn and fades at night
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Nature
- Author:
- Ambrose Philips
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Not in Segar (1937). Swift Poems Project, M121 (Doubtful exchanges (parts of) with Swift)
- First Line:
- My age is not a moment's stay
- Last Line:
- And fade that instant that I blow
- Relationship:
- Parody Of/Parodied By
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CXII.
- Poem Title:
- The Rose.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CXII.
- Poem Title:
- The Rose.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana... [ESTC T53830]
- Page No(s):
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- The Rose:
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips.
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
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